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Speaker 2: James Kirst Junior, Welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: I am so excited wan to finally meet you. I'm

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Speaker 2: glad you heard Atlanta. How is the trip down?

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Speaker 1: It was good. Yeah, on the PJ.

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Speaker 2: Got out on the PJ. Honestly, that's all that matters.

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Speaker 2: I keep trying to make my way onto the PJ.

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Speaker 2: They won't let me for some reason. They're like, you

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Speaker 2: this is where you live.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I met you here. Here's cool.

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Speaker 2: You're like, you don't exist outside of this room.

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Speaker 1: No, that's not the case.

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Speaker 2: So I was actually going through and we're recording this

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Speaker 2: And you responded like, oh yeah, same deal applies, Like

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Speaker 2: you're ready to go. What's that same deal? What's Raheem

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Speaker 1: No, that's my guy. You see where I ended up.

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Speaker 1: You got what I'm saying, he said it it took

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Speaker 2: It's funny because I think, like oftentimes I talked to

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Speaker 1: So well, yeah, it was just probably just me being

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Speaker 2: So what excites you the most about coming to Atlanta?

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, sorry, It's a new start, new start, new team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah? They helped me make a lot of big decision

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Speaker 1: Probably teleportation?

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Speaker 2: Else, get up and walk around. You're like six', five

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Speaker 2: a great. CONVERSATION i really enjoyed getting to know you

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Speaker 2: a little. BIT i hope our fans have, to so

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for sitting down with. Us, everybody

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Speaker 2: you can check out all of the content IN jpj ten,

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Speaker 2: Whatever James Pearce, junior whatever you want to call, Him

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Speaker 2: And i'm so excited to welcome you To, atlanta And

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